TO4 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
the horizontal stroke denote the paddles used by the men, who are 
shown as the first and second upward strokes above the canoe; in the 
same figure, ¢ shows the outline of human figures, copied from a walrus 
ivory drill-bow (U. 8. Nat. Mus., No. 44398) from Cape Nome, Alaska. 
The second pair closely resemble forms of the thunder-bird as drawn 
Fig, 1159.—Human form. Alaska. 
by various Algonquian tribes and as found in petroglyphs upon rocks 
in the northeastern portion of the United States; in the same figure, d, 
selected from a group of human forms, is incised upon a walrus ivory 
drill-bow obtained at Port Clarence, Alaska, by Dr. T. H. Bean, of the 
National Museum. The specimen is numbered 40054. The fringe-like 
appendages on the arms may indicate the garment worn by some of 
the Kenai or other inland Athabascan Indians of Alaska. 
Fig. 1160, from Strahlenberg, op. cit., was found in 
Siberia, and is identical with the character which, ac- 
cording to Schooleraft, is drawn by the Ojibwa to repre- 
sent speed and the power of superior knowledge by 
Fig. 1160._Bira. @Xaltation to the regions of the air, being, in his opinion, 
man. Siberia. 4 ¢ombination of bird and man. 
It is to be noticed that some Ojibwa recently examined regard the 
character merely as a human figure with out- 
stretched arms, and fringes pendent therefrom. 
It has, also, a strong resemblance to some of the 
figures in the Lone-Dog Winter Counts (those for 
185455 and 186667, pages 283 and 285, respec- 
tively), in which there is no attempt understood = Fic. eT eens 
to signify anything more than a war-dress. ep 
Fig. 1161, according to Schooleraft (t), is the 
Ojibwa drawing symbolic for an American. 
Bastian (a), in Ethnologisches Bildebuch, says: 
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Upon a shaman’s drum, from the Yakuts of Siberia, is the 
figure of a human form greatly resembling some forms of 
the American types. The appendages beneath the arms, 
given in Fig. 1162, suggest also some forms of the thunder- 
Fig. 1162.—Man. Yakut. bird as drawn by the Ojibwa. 
FiG. 1163.—Human forms. Moki. 
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